This workbook is intended as an aid to the teacher of a bilingual/bicultural Spanish-English program in the primary grades. It contains modified crossword puzzles in Spanish, designed to accompany the Spanish Curricula Development Center Southwest Edition readers, Units 1-3, Kits 2-9. The puzzles are intended to aid in reinforcing reading words…

Travel slides, which many teachers have from their own travels, can provide material for excellent language lessons of high interest, even at beginning levels. Slides of Africa were used to develop five teaching units easily adapted to several language levels. Each unit included questions and information about the slides with related reading and…

In response to a growing need for a comprehensive evaluation and cataloging of nontextbook materials in the field of health sciences, the Educational Materials Project, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, developed a clearinghouse system called AVLINE (Audiovisual on Line) for the dissemination of information about these materials. To…

This report contains instructions for the use of GENERAL, a tutorial type teaching logic developed for the PLATO system. The logic of GENERAL is first introduced and diagrammed for the user. Then lesson planning for program authors is discussed in terms of format rules, branching pages, challenge pages, and information retrieval pages. Control…

Simulation is the duplication of the essential characteristics of a task or situation. It represents three elements of the teaching-learning process: (1) stimulus situation; (2) response; and (3) feedback. The uses of simulation may fall into one of three general categories: research--the generation of information about an operational or proposed…

More than 2000 individual television programs produced by the nation's public broadcasting stations are listed in this catalog. The programs are divided among more than 270 subject headings, and they represent the general interest areas of public affairs, current issues, art, health, science, instruction, sports, and childrens shows. Programs and…

Outlined is a 4-hour workshop presentation designed to teach 40 to 50 university special education teacher training personnel and coordinators of public school inservice programs to write competency based instructional formats. In addition to an overview and status report of competency based teacher education (CBTE), sessions are explained to…

The study focused on information that would determine the relative effectiveness and costs of presenting career information to elementary students via strategies utilizing microform and hardcopy. The elementary INFOE (Information Needed for Occupational Education) component was selected for use in the study with the career information presentation…

The comic book is discussed as an aid to improving English conversational ability in preadolescents and teenagers. A description of some of the characteristics of conversational English, such as contractions, stereotyped phrases, and conversational fillers, should precede the presentation of data from comic books. Classroom techniques suggested…

One of a series on the visual information transfer problems of the partially sighted, the report describes an interactive, multicamera, multimonitor closed circuit television (CCTV) system that permits continuous visual communication between teacher and students in an elementary school resource room. The system (in use since November 1973) is the…

The scope, history, and effects of technological innovation in higher education in Japan, with particular attention to Tokyo Institute of Technology, are explored, and the developments leading to the present state of the technology are reviewed. An overview of the current status includes a listing of institutions with audiovisual equipment, a…

To determine the effect of intermittent information feedback schedules on content error rate, recall and retention of videotaped programed materials viewed under group-paced conditions, 60 students were randomly assigned to four groups. Each group viewed a sequence of 240 frames, with the ratio of question frames to answer frames fixed or…

Eleven crossword puzzles, designed to give the student practice with the correct spelling and usage of those words needed to indicate his mastery of the concepts and understandings taught in business courses, are contained, with answer keys, in a teacher's packet. Any puzzle can be reproduced by ditto or by transparency for classroom use. There is…

The bibliography contains approximately 170 listings (all published in 1973-74) of books, professional articles, films, slides, and videotapes as well as working papers and unpublished manuscripts by staff members of the Experimental Education Unit of the Child Development and Mental Retardation Center at the University of Washington. Listings are…

The MERIT Computer Network interconnects computing systems of three large universities: The University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University. This telecommunication system facilitates the sharing of computing resources among students, faculty, and research staffs of those institutions. The present document provides an…